ARLY AMERICAN 
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BROOKLYN MUSEUM 


FEBRUARY 1924 





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446 463 450 Lent by Mrs. Lathrop Colgate Harper 


(NOTE. The cover design of this catalogue illustrates a patch and stuffed quilt, Lent by 
Mr. Omri F. Hibbard) 


Brooklyn Museum 


CATALOGUE 
OF 


EARLY AMERICAN HANDICRAFT 
COMPRISING 


COSTUMES, QUILTS, COVERLETS, SAMPLERS, 
LACES, EMBROIDERIES, AND OTHER 
RELATED OBJECTS 


OPENING, FEBRUARY 4, 1924 


“A PEOPLE THAT TAKES NO PRIDE 
IN THE NOBLE ACHIEVEMENTS OF 
REMOTE ANCESTORS WILL NEVER 
ACHIEVE ANYTHING WORTHY TO 
BE REMEMBERED WITH PRIDE BY 
REMOTE DESCENDANTS.” 


Macaulay 


FOREWORD 


The present exhibition of old American handicrafts pro- 
vides the means of obtaining so many glimpses into the old 
time life of our people, so much of insight into their manners 
and social conditions that it cannot fail to bring to us a sense 
of pride that we are descendants of the sturdy stock which pro- 
duced these objects so often beautiful or ingenious and so 
invariably practical and honest. 


The occasion must also give cause for speculation as to 
whether our grandchildren will be able to assemble collections 
of equal charm and interest as memorials to our own industry 
in this age of manifold conveniences and aids to easy accom- 
plishment. How well we know a site which within our own 
memory has been occupied in succession by several buildings 
each of which has given place to another in the ease and rush 
of present day creation, we feel sure that the current structure 
will prove but temporary and our builders may congratulate 
themselves on having accomplished a vast amount of work but 
not on any lasting results. The efforts of our forefathers were 


confined to the slow and laborious creation of necessary and 
practical things, decoration was always a secondary considera- 


tion, usefulness, honest work, durability were the fundamental 
aims and requirements. 


The objects which have been assembled were nearly all 
the work of women, they have their distinct historic and artistic 
interest but also the great virtue that they are really organic 


creations, fashioned from necessity and therefore with a real 
sense of fitness; the decorative elements arise naturally from 
the possibilities of the mediums employed, the designs for the 
woven coverlets, for example, are always governed by and 
beautifully adapted to the method of the work, the most 
intricate designs of a patch-quilt took their forms from the 
frank and economical desire to utilize the scraps. Such work 
must serve to remind us how wrongly we are apt to consider 
art as something detached from life and reality. 


To Mrs. Clarence Reginald Hyde is due great credit for 
having assisted the Museum in the assembling of a large part 
of the current exhibit. With genuine appreciation of the real 
value and importance of these objects and with most sympa- 
thetic knowledge of sources which otherwise through reticence 
might have remained obscure, she has enlisted the generous 
cooperation of many friends of public interest who have con- 
tributed cherished family treasures recognizing that in their 
display by the Museum they have found their most useful and 
appropriate setting. We feel that the resulting exhibition is 
thus of unique importance not only because of its artistic and 
historic value, but especially because of its ethical and social 
meaning. 


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Lent by Fort Greene Chapter D. A. R. 

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CATALOGUE 


DOLLS 


China headed doll; clothes and body made by Frances 
Marietta Savage in 1860 
Lent by Mrs. Henry Brewster Minton 
Lady doll bought at Sanitary Fair, Brooklyn, in 1864 
Lent by Mrs. Thomas H. Beardsley 
Doll owned by Mary Douglas Brigham in 1855 
Lent by Mrs. John Huntting Sayres 
Doll owned by Elsie Lefferts who was born in the old 
Lefferts Homestead, Flatbush, in 1761 


Lent by ‘“‘Little Men and Women of ‘76’’ Chil- 
dren of the American Revolution 


Lady doll, among the first to have real hair in 1862 
Lent by Mrs. John W. Chapman 
Lady doll with complete wardrobe of the period of 1864; 
dressed for the Sanitary Fair, Brooklyn, by Eliza 
Lefferts 
Lent by Mrs. Louise Lefferts Downs 
Doll made for Elizabeth H. Tredway about 1825 
Lent by the Misses White 
Doll of about 1790 


Lent by the Fort Greene Chapter, Daughters of 
the American Revolution 


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Doll brought from Paris over fifty years ago 
Doll about fifty years old 
Lent by Mrs. Edwin C. Ward 


Soldier doll, about 1862 
Doll, about 1860 
Lent by Louis Buhle 


Old set of doll’s furniture and doll, New England, early 
19th Century 
Lent by Mrs. Robert Coleman Taylor 


COSTUME ACCESSORIES 


Black satin collar made by Vesta McLaren of New York 
City in 1835 
Lent by Mrs. Willis Mott Moore 
Hand made linen stays, embroidered with name and date, 
made by Emily Heusted for her wedding in 1840 
Lent by Miss Julia Kent Trowbridge 


Silk mantilla worn by Rebecca Elizabedh Beers Haskell in 
1848 
Lent by Miss Haskell 
Chemise embroidered by Frances Marietta Savage in 1860 
Lent by Mrs. Henry Brewster Minton 


Black silk scarf made by Sarah M. Dupuy before 1860 
Lent by Mrs. Lambert V. B. Cameron 


Underwaist of linen, spun and made by Pheobe Van Nos- 
trand Petit, of Fulton and Poplar Streets, Brooklyn, 


about 1800 
Lent by Mrs. Frederick K. Middlebrook 


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White silk mantilla with fringe, used about 1850 
Plum colored silk mantilla used about 1850 


Lent by Fort Greene Chapter, Daughters of the 
American Revolution 


Old hand made stays with heavy iron brace down the 
front, used about 1740 
Lent by Miss Elizabeth B. Lewis 


Ruffled short gown worn by a member of the Lefferts fam- 
ily about 1800. A short gown was worn with a white 
petticoat and was the working costume of the house- 
wife © 

Lent by Mrs. Louise Lefferts Downs 

Net waist trimmed with green ribbons worn about 1850 
Lent by Fort Greene Chapter, Daughters of the 
American Revolution 

Blue silk hand quilted skirt worn by Catherine Schuyler, 
1723-1797 

Lent by Miss Louise G. Zabriskie 


Black silk pelisse worn by Elizabeth Bowne Duryea about 
1860 
Black silk hood work by Elizabeth Bowne Duryea 
Lent by Mrs. Edwin C. Ward 
Fan given to Mary Swan of Boston in 1774 by a Tory 
neighbor with whom her father had forbidden her to 
speak 
Lent by Mrs. John H. Sinkinson 
Pocketbook worked about 1750 by Anne Germain, a 
French Huguenot, who married Joseph Petit of ealig 
stead, L. I. 
Lent by Mrs. Frederick H. Middlebrook 


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Embroidered bag with name and date “Marie Cortelyou, 
March 25, 1806” 
Lent by Mrs. Charles F. Seaman 
Small wool patch bag 
Lent by Mrs. Edwin C. Ward 
Card case worked in fine cross-stitch,made and used in 
1841 
Lent by Mrs. Chauncey EK. Low 
Fan owned by Mrs. Thomae, about 1850 
Lent by the Misses White 
Hand embroidered night gown, from France, bi the 
American Revolution 
Lent by Miss Elizabeth M. Lewis 
Muff of red flamingo feathers, once the property of Queen 
Hortense Beauharnais, mother of Napoleon 111, and 
-given by her in 1830 to the great grandmother of 
Miss Marguerite Cuénod 


HANDKERCHIEFS AND KERCHIEFS 


Wedding handkerchief made by Aurelia Whitney of Le- 


Roy N. Y. in 1848 
Lent by Mrs. Joseph B. Whitney 


Hand embroidered handkerchief owned by Sarah Barrea 


Zabriskie, 1786-1857 
Hand embroidered handkerchief owned by Sarah Barrea 
Zabriskie, 1786-1857 
Tape bordered kerchief (necker-chief) 
Early hand embroidered kerchief (necker-chief) 
Early hand embroidered kerchief (necker-chief) 
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Wedding handkerchief carried by Mrs. Isaac Meade of 
Charlestown, Mass. in 1851 
Kerchief (necker- chief) used in 1800 
Large linen handkerchief made by hand 
Lent by Mrs. Chauncy E. Low 


Hand embroidered handkerchief of Mrs. B. L. Van Buren 
in 1860 
Lent by Dr. Harriet V. B. Peckham 


Linen handkerchief marked S. Butler, 1810 
Lent by Dr. and Mrs. Glentworth R. Butler 


Hand embroidered handkerchief owned by Abigail Mason 
Clary Morse about 1848 
Lent by Mrs. Clarence Reginald Hyde 


Two hand embroidered handkerchiefs used by Jane Wed- 
hams Stevens of Litchfield, Connecticut about 1840 
Lent by the Misses Ray 


NIGHT AND DAY CAPS 


Night cap worn by Rebecca Elizabeth Beers Haskell in 
1848 
Day cap worn by Rebecca Elizabeth Beers Haskell in 
1848 
Lent by Miss Haskell 


Night cap worn by Jane Lewis born in 1808 
Night cap worn by Jane Lewis born in 1808 
Lent by Mrs. Frank M. Brooks 


Day cap, embroidered with blue silk and worn by Mrs. 
Alonzo D. Morgan in 1860 
Lent by Miss Louise G. Zabriskie 


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Day cap worn by Maria Lott Lefferts, 1786-1865 
Lent by Mrs. Leffert Lefferts 


Day cap worn by Mrs. Rudolf Reimer of N. Y. in 1857 
Lent by Miss Margaret B. Reimer 


Day cap worn in 1800 


Day cap worn in 1858 
Lent by Mrs. Chauncey E. Low 


Hand embroidered night cap worn by Mrs. James Williams: 
of Valatie, N. Y. before 1820 
Lent by Dr. Harriet V. B. Peckham 


Night cap made and worn by Phoebe Van Nostrand Petit 
of Fulton and Poplar Streets, Brooklyn about 1800 


Night cap, made and worn by Pheobe Van Nostrand Petit 
of Fulton and Poplar Streets, Brooklyn about 1800 
Lent by Mrs. Frederick K. Middlebrook 


Silk day Cap. Quotation from letter written by Laura Brooks Vos- 
bough in 1845; the cap referred to was made when she was a child, 
about 1780, ‘‘I wish Elizabeth to keep what is marked with my 
name and to remember me and my industry by keeping the silk 
that I have made from the mulberrys which I raised from the seeds 
sown with my little fingers when quite small, with my father’s help 
and encouragement. The feeding of the worms and the reeling of 
the balls, the knitting and the dyeing, both the yellow and the au- 
burn colors for the head I alsodid. It has been worn by many and 
trimmed in various modes and fashions, with ribbons sometimes and 
sometimes with flowers and sometimes with feathers.” 


Lent by Mrs. John V. B. Thayer 


Cap worn by Anna Kissam Embury Sheldon in Rome in 


1853 
Lent by Fort Greene Chapter, Daughters of the 
American Revolution 
Two nightcaps made and worn by Eliza Dyar Eastman 


about 1825 
Lent by Mrs. George B. Studley 


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Day cap worn by a member of the Lefferts family about 
1800 


Day cap worn by a member of the Lefferts family about 
1800 
Lent by Mrs. Louise Lefferts Downs 


HAND EMBROIDERIES 


Seven pair of hand embroidered under-sleeves worn by 
Deborah Smith Becar of New York City in 1818 
Lent by Mrs. Charles M. Bull 


Hand embroidered muslin cape made and worn about 
1840 
Lent by the Misses Ingalls 


Silk and velvet embroidered bag made in 1845 
Lent by Mrs. Chauncey E. Low 


Hand embroidered under-sleeves and collar made and 
worn by Mrs. B. L. Van Buren of Valatie, N. Y. on her 
wedding day 

Hand embroidered neck wear made and worn by Mrs. 
B. L. Van Buren of Valatie N. Y. about 1855 

Lent by Dr. Harriet V. B. Peckham 


Button-hole cut work collar made by Maria M. Lewis in 
1857 
Hand emboidered collar made by Maria M. Lewis at the 
age of fourteen years in 1857 
Two hand embroidered under-sleeves made by Maria 
M. Lewis in 1857; with her daguerreotype 
Lent by Mrs. Walter M. Meserole 


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Two hand embroidered trousseau night gowns made and 
worn by Teresa Way, in 1868 
Lent by Mrs. Silas Wright Driggs 


Hand embroidered reticule of eyelet and punch ee 
signed Aves M. Godard; prior to 1815 
Lent by Miss Alice G. Chase 
Pocket wrought by Maria Buffum in 1725, in the tenth 
year of her age; so designated and written nearly one- 
hundred years age 
Silk apron embroidered by Maria Fairbanks Buffum,1840 
Pocket, embroidered by Maria Arnold of Smithfield, R. I. 
in 1795 when she was ten years of age 
Lent by Mrs. Willard Bartlett 
Hand embroidered nainsook shawl used by Sarah Ann 
Hodges Clark Fessenden 
Lent by Miss Sallie Fessenden Hodges 
Hand embroidered guimpe, belonged to Elizabeth Russell 
Degen in 1790 
Lent by Miss Anne Mitchell Upjohn 
Strip of hand embroidery, all in one. piece of cambric 
a dress skirt; with tucking and lace work 
Lent by Miss Mary Hull Rowland 
Hand embroidered cape 


Lent by the Fort Greene Chapter, Daughters of 
the American Revolution 


Hand embroidered collar and cape made by Eliza V. Kast- . 
man in 1850 
Two pair of hand embroidered undersleeves made by Mrs. 
George H. Barrett about 1840 
Lent by Mrs. George B. Studley 





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Hand embroidered square tabbed collar and cuffs about 
1855 
Lent by the Fort Greene Chapter, Daughters of 
the Americau Revolution 
Two hand embroidered capes worn by Jane Wadhams 
Stevens of Litchfield, Conn. about 1840 


Hand embroidered collar worn by Jane Wadhams Stevens 
of Litchfield, Conn. about 1840 
Lent by the Misses Ray 


Hand embroidered collar, copied from a French pattern 
and made by Eliza Gallup Lamb of Groton Conn. in 
1850 

Lent by Hannah E. Lamb Gallup 


SHOES AND SLIPPERS 


Yellow slipper worn by Sarah Stowe of Philadelphia in 
1787 
Lent by Mrs. Willis Mott Moore 


Slippers worn by Elizabeth Leavitt in 1810 
Lent by Miss Haskell 


Child’s shoes worn by Delia Minton in 1858 
Lent by Mrs. Henry Brewster Minton 


Satin slippers worn by Ave de Garmo of Albany about 
1788 


Lent by Miss Virginia Woodward 


Gentleman’s black shoes worn by the Honorable Benja- 
min Thompson while a Congressman during the 
Administration of President Zachary Taylor. The 
shoes bear on the inside the name of maker in Wash- 
ington about 1848 

Lent by Mrs. Chauncey E. Low 


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Wedding slippers and stockings worn by Mrs. Benjamin 
Thompson in 1818 
Lent by Mrs. Chauncey E. Low 
White satin wedding slippers used before 1848 
Lent by Miss Elizabeth M. Lewis 


High walking shoes, laced up the side, worn about 1850 
Wedding slippers of Anna Kissam Embury Sheldon, 
worn in 1853 
Lent by the Fort Greene Chapter, Daughters of 
the American Revolution 
White satin slippers, period of 1820-1830 
Lent by Mrs. W. Sterling Peters 


White satin slippers worn by Elizabeth Ann Bowne in 
1844 
Two pairs of child’s slippers worn by the children of 
Elizabeth and Harmanus Barkuloo Duryea about 1848 
Lent by Mrs. Edwin C. Ward 
Slippers, period of 1770-1780 
Gentleman’s house slippers about 1840 
Lent by Mrs. W. Sterling Peters 
Slippers worn by the Princess Alice when a child, daugh- 


ter of Queen Victoria, and mother of the late Empress 


of Russia 
Lent by Mrs. William P. Pool 


GLOVES, MITTS AND STOCKINGS 


Gloves and stockings worn by Isabelle Haskell in 1853 
Lent by Miss Haskell 


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Black lace mitts worn about 1830 
Gentleman’s gloves worn in 1840 
Lent by Mrs. Chauncey E. Low 
Gentleman’s crepe gloves worn at a wedding in 1818 
Lent by Miss Elizabeth M. Lewis 


Black silk embroidered mitts 
Infant’s pink silk socks worn by Helen Seymour Dodd 
of Hartford in 1837 
Lent by Mrs. Charles E. Davis 


Long silk mitts worn about 1830 
Lent by Mrs. Clarence Reginald Hyde 


Black lace mitts worn by Jane Wadhams Stevens of 


Litchfield, Connecticut about 1840 
Lent by the Misses Ray 


Two pairs cotton gloves worn about 1855 
Lent by Mrs. Edwin C. Ward 


SHAWLS 


Embroidered crepe shawl, green and purple reversible, 
used by Mrs. Benjamin Thompson while in Washing- 
ton, D. C., during the years 1845-1852 

Red crepe shawl with deep fringe 

Lent by Mrs. Chauncey E. Low 

White silk crepe shawl, heavily embroidered and fringed, 

used by Elizabeth Kellogg about 1832 
Lent by Miss A. Louise M. Gilbert 


Shawl used in the Moulton family of Saco, Maine in 


1800 
Lent by Mrs. John H. Sinkinson 


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Shawl used by Mary Gray Chadbourne of Waterboro, 
Maine in 1830 
Lent by Mrs. John H. Sinkinson 


Red cashmere shawl owned by Mrs. David Buffum before 
the Civil War 
Lent by Mrs. Willard Bartlett 
Two paisley shawls with white and black centers 
Lent by Dr. and Mrs. Glentworth R. Butler 


Broche shawl used about 1850 
Lent by Mrs. George B. Studley 


Camel’s hair shawl owned by Abigail Mason Clary 
Morse in 1855 
Lent by Mrs. Clarence Reginald Hyde. 


Cashmere shawl worn by Mary Anne Hanmer Dodd 


about 1835 
Lent by Mrs. Charles E. Davis 


Three cornered silk shawl worn by Lydia Hooker Smith 


in 1826 
Lent by Mrs. Willis McDonald 


HATS AND BONNETS 


Two child’s bonnets worn by Isabelle Haskell in 1853 
Lent by Miss Haskell 


White satin wedding bonnet worn by Aurelia Whitney 
of LeRoy, New York in 1848 — 

Bonnet with original ribbon. The grass was gathered 
and the bonnet woven by Maria MiareDy ae LeRoy, 


New York in 1820 
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Leghorn bonnet with original trimmings, worn by Mrs. 
Hannah Bowers Bourn Ingalls at the wedding reception 
of the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Congdon of 
125 Remsen Street, Brooklyn in 1862 


Lent by the Misses Ingalls 


Green calash made by Mehitobel Hooker Edgecomb 
Lent by Miss Hooker 


Green velvet bonnet from Paris in 1863 
Blue taffeta bonnet from Paris in 1863 
Lent by Mrs. Willard Bartlett 


Wadded hood about 1800 and lace hat 
Lent by Mrs. Walter B. Winslow 


Two straw bonnets with original trimmings, worn by Mrs. 
Thomas Arnold Buffum about 1860 
Lent by Miss Cornelia G. Henshaw 


Two straw poke bonnets with original trimmings, worn 
by Clarissa Hanmer Dodd in 1815 
Lent by Mrs. Charles E. Davis 


Silk bonnets period of 1840-1845 
Lent by Mrs, W. Sterling Peters 


Three child’s hats worn about 1848 
White leghorn bonnet worn by Elizabeth Bowne Duryea 
about 1850 
Lent by Mrs. Edwin C. Ward 


Two old Quaker bonnets and a silk cover which was worn 
over them in inclement weather. With old wall-paper 


band box 


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PARASOLS 


Black silk parasol embroidered with beads and made by 
Silena Galpin Richardson of New Haven in 1830 
Black thread lace parasol used by Mary Richardson 
Hyde in 1861 
Lent by Miss Alice Earle Hyde 


Brocaded silk parasol used by Cornelia Ditmars in 1840 
Lent by Mrs. Joseph Duke Harrison 
Brocaded silk parasol used by Clarissa Johnson Way in 
1830 
Lent by Miss Alice A. Driggs 
Black thread lace parasol with carved ivory handle, used 
by Mary Brewster Minton in 1860 
Lent by Mrs. Henry Brewster Minton 
Black thread lace parasol used by Margaret Jane Cary 
of Newburyport, Massachusetts in 1859 
Lent by Mrs. Charles Bigelow Denny 
Silk and fringed parasol with carved ivory folding 
handle 
Lent by Mrs. James A. Brodie 
Parasol used by Jane Wadhams Stevens of Litchfield, 
Connecticut about 1840 
Lent by the Misses Ray 


Taffeta silk parasol used by Elizabeth Bowne Duryea 
about 1860 
Child’s parasol 
Lent by Mrs. Edwin C. Ward 


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CHILDREN’S COSTUMES 


Baby dress and cap. The flax was grown, spun, woven 
and finally fashioned into a baby gown by Thankful 
Wilder Whitney of Westminster, Massachusetts in 
1735 

Lent by Mrs. W. Frothingham Smith 

Baby dress worn by John Lefferts in 1785 | 

Baby cap worn by Peter Lefferts in 1743 ! 

Baby cap worn by Leffert Vanderbilt in 1848 

Lent by Mrs. Leffert Lefferts 

Short baby dress, hand embroidered and hemstitched by 

Mary Talbot Pitman Earle of Providence in 1840 
Lent by Mrs. Clarence Reginald Hyde 

Baby cap and collar made by Maria E. Miller of New 

York City in 1830 
Lent by Mrs. Willis Mott Moore 


Two hand embroidered baby dresses worn by Cornelia 
Deane Keith in 1837 
Hand made baby waist with darned lace worn in 1858 
Hand made separate sleeves for baby gown worn in 1858 
Lent by Mrs. Alden S. Crane 
Baby cap made for Isaac Willets of Westbury, Long 
Island in 1819 
Lent by the Misses Titus 


Hand embroidered christening robe worn in 1855 
Lent by Mrs. James Foster 


Two child’s spencers worn in 1853 
Child’s apron worn in 1853 
Lent by Mrs. George D. Lanman 


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‘Baby cap 


Hand embroidered baby cap made before 1840 
Lent by Mrs, Alexander N. Cook 


Christening robe worn by the Reverend J. Glentworth 
Butler D.D. in 1820 


Baby dress worn by a member of the Butler family in 


1854 . 
Lent by Dr. and Mrs. Glentworth R. Butler 


Two lace baby caps worn in 1840 
Lent by Miss May Tyng Upjohn 
Child’s garment made for Delia Newton in 1859 
Lent by Mrs. Henry Brewster Minton 


Baby cap worn by a member of the Bécar family of New 


York City about 1800 
Lent by Mrs. Charles M. Bull 


Lent. by Mrs. W. Sterling Peters 
Three hand embroidered baby waists, 1835 
Lent by Mrs. John V. B. Thayer 


Child’s dress embroidered in wool on nankeen 
. Lent by Mrs. George A. Evans 


‘Two hand embroidered baby caps 


Lent by the Misses Ingalls - 


Child’s delaine wrapper used about 1860 
Lent by Mrs. Chauncey E. Low 


Christening robe brought from France and used for Mary 
Douglas Brigham in 1847 
Lent by Mrs. John Huntting Sayres 
Baby dress made by Elizabeth Kellogg of Athens, New 


York in 1820 
Lent by Miss A. Louise M. Gilbert 


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Hand embroidered baby cap worm in 1861 
Lent by Dr. Harriet V. B. Peckham 


Child’s cap hand embroidered and trimmed with darned 
lace made by Sallie Maria Lewis in 1847 
Lent by Mrs. Walter M. Meserole 


Tambour lace baby cap made by Amy Eleanor Harvey 
Whitmore in 1831 
Lent by Miss Olive Whitmore 


Hand embroidered baby waist, eyelet and buttonhole 
work 
Lent by Miss Alice G. Chase 


Christening robe embroidered by Mary Ball Edes about 
1838 , 
Lent by Mrs. Henry F. Noyes 


Baby dress made by Sarah Ann Hodges Clark Fessenden 


in 1840 
Vestee for baby gown worn by Sarah Ann Hodges Clark 


Fessenden 
Lent by Miss Sallie Fessenden Hodges 


Hand embroidered baby dress worn about 1840 
Lent by Miss Mary Blackburne Woodward 


180a Pantalettes worn by Margaret Winslow, aged three years, 


1836 


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Lent by Mrs. Walter B. Winslow 


Child’s embroidered cap worn in 1771 
Lent by Miss Anne Michell Upjohn 


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Christening robe embroidered by Mrs. John Bulley of 
Devonshire, England in 1780. Worn at the following 
christenings by—George Ferris Bulley England, 1815; 
George Wilshear Bulley of Brooklyn in 1858; Barbara 
Bulley of Brooklyn in 1920 

Lent by Mrs. Frank H. Bulley 


Hand embroidered christening robe made for and worn 
by members of the Maitland family of New York 
Lent by James Lord Bishop, 2nd 
Christening robe made by Phoebe Van Nostrand Petit 
for her grandchildren about 1820, Brooklyn 
Lent by Miss Cornelia Gracie Henshaw 
Baby dress made by one of the daughters of General 
Huntington for Philip Augustus Embury about 1822 
Lent by Fort Greene Chapter, Daughters of the 
American Revolution 
Baby dress made by Eliza Dyar Eastman in 1829 
Lent by Mrs. George B. Studley 
Hand embroidered christening robe 
Lent by Mrs. Louise Lefferts Downs 
Two hand embroidered waists for baby dresses 
Lent by Mrs. Stephen H. Giles 
Child’s silk hand embroidered party gown worn by Marie 


Leckler in 1852 
Lent by Mrs. James A. Brodie 


Baby cap worn about 1835 
Lent by Mrs, Alexander N. Cook 
Baby cap made by Eleanor White Stevens in 1850 
Baby shirt made by Eleanor White Stevens in 1850 
Lent by Mrs. Chandler A. Mackey 





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Dress worn by Eliza Weaver, granddaughter of Barbara 
Weaver in April, 1789, when a bevy of little girls 
strew flowers on the bridge at Trenton, at the time 
General Washington was on his way to New York to 
be inaugurated the first President of the United States 

Lent by Mrs. William Henry Fox 


Shaded silk and quilted child’s coat and bonnet worn by 
Ellen L. Smith, daughter of Cyrus P. Smith, the first 
Mayor of Brooklyn in 1849 

Dressing gown made by Lydia Hooker Smith for her son 
Theodore E. Smith in 1842 

Lent by Mrs. Willis McDonald 


Hand embroidered baby dress worn about 1847 
Two hand embroidered baby caps worn about 1846 


Four child’s English print dresses worn about 1848 
Lent by Mrs. Edwin C. Ward 


GOWNS 


White satin evening gown worn by Mary Fairbanks in 
e548 aa 

Figured silk gown worn by Mary Fairbanks in 1839 

Fawn colored silk gown worn by Mrs. David Buffum 
about 1847 

Dark green silk gown and overskirt worn by Mrs. David 
Buffum in 1860 

Lent by Mrs. Willard Bartlett 


Embroidered skirt and cloak, part of trousseau of 
Deborah Bécar, of New York City in 1824 
Lent by Mrs. Charles M. Bull 


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Gown worn by Margaret Jane Cary of Newburyport, 
Massachusetts in 1859 
Lent by Mrs. Charles Bigelow Denny 


Lavender tissue gown worn by Helen Seymour Dodd of 
Hartford in 1857 
Lent by Mrs. Charles E. Davis 


Barege gown worn by Jane Wadhams Stevens of Litch- 
field, Connecticut about 1840 
Lent by the Misses Ray 


Two early machine embroidered gowns worn by Cornelia 
Van Nuyse in 1840 
Plaid silk gown worn by Cornelia De Baum in 1849 
Lent by Mrs. Joseph Duke Harrison 
French calico gown in the trousseau of Marietta Sher- 
wood Savage of Fairfield, Connecticut in 1835 
Gown of Mlle. Raphael of Hartford in 1830 


Lent by Mrs. Henry Brewster Minton 
Brown and white checked silk gown made and worn by 


~ Mary Jealous before 1860 
Lent by Mrs. Lambert V. B. Cameron 


Hand embroidered gown about two hundred years old 


Lent by Mrs. John V. B. Thayer 


Green and black silk gown worn by Mrs. John Whipple 
Frothingham of Brooklyn in 1850 — 
Purple silk polonaise worn by Mrs. John Whipple 
Frothingham of Brooklyn in 1860 
Delaine morning gown, palm leaf pattern worn by Mrs. 
John Whipple Frothingham about 1844 
Lent by Mrs. Chauncey E. Low 








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Delaine morning gown, small palm leaf pattern trimmed 
with blue, worn by Mrs. Benjamin Thompson of 
Charlestown, Massachusetts in 1825 

Lent by Mrs. Chauncey E. Low 


Brocaded silk gown worn by Lydia Hooker Smith, wife 


of Cyrus P. Smith, the first Mayor of Brooklyn, 1829 
Lent by Mrs. Willis McDonald 


Changeable taffeta silk gown worn by Elizabeth Bowne 
Duryea before 1860 

Crimson and white barege gown worn by Elizabeth 
Bowne Duryea before 1860 

Blue and white pineapple gauze gown worn by Elizabeth 
Bowne Duryea before 1860 


Bridesmaid’s gown of white taffeta silk with lace bertha 
worn in Milwaukee in 1862 


Changeable taffeta gown trimmed with blue taffeta ruftles 
worn in Milwaukee about 1860 


Blue striped taffeta gown worn in Milwaukee about 1860 
Lent by Mrs. Edwin C. Ward 


White embroidered muslin gown, worn by Jessie Cairns 
Henderson 
Lent by Mrs. James H. Post 


WEDDING GOWNS 


Wedding gown of hand embroidered muslin worn by 
Elizabeth Leavitt Haskell in 1810 
Lent by Miss Haskell 


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Wedding gown of Sarah Ann Ackerman Woodward of 
Albany in 1835 
Wedding gown of Savitta Becker who married Jellis de 
Garmo of Albany in 1758 
Lent by Miss Virginia Woodward 


Wedding gown of hand embroidered muslin worn by 
Mrs. Isaac Meade of Charlestown, Massachusetts in 
1851 

Lent by Mrs. Chauncey E. Low 

Wedding gown and cape of green silk worn by Maria 

Fairbanks Buffum in 1839 
Lent by Mrs. Willard Bartlett 


Wedding gown of Abigail Freby Hildreth of New Lon- 
don in 1792 
Lent by Mrs. Louis Wendell Butler 
Wedding gown of white embroidered muslin worn by 
Fanny Johnson Bunce of Weathersfield, Connecticut 
in 1810 
Lent by Mrs. Charles E. Davis 
Wedding gown of white silk worn by Francina E. F. 
Wilder in 1840 
Lent by Mrs. William A. Putnam 


Wedding gown worn by Sophia Ward who married 
Robins Cook Blackbume in 1836 
Lent by Miss Mary Blackburne Woodward 
Wedding gown of Elizabeth Ann Bowne who married 
Harmanus Barkuloo Duryea in 1844. They were 
married by the Rev. Dr. Cox of the First Presbyterian 


Church of Brooklyn 
Lent by Mrs. Edwin C. Ward 





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Wedding gown of cream moire worn by Charlotte 
Flanders of Milwaukee, who married the Rev. William 
Alvin Bartlett in 1859. The latter was the pastor of 
the Congregational Church on Elm Place, Brooklyn 

Wedding gowns of white silk worn by Isabel N. S. and 


Helen M. Flanders of Milwaukee in 1862 
Lent by Mrs. Edwin C. Ward 


APPAREL OF GENTLEMEN 


Embroidered waistcoat worn by David Leavitt at his 
wedding in 1846 
Lent by Miss Haskell 
Black broadcloth coat worn by John Lefferts, 1785-1829 
Brown velvet knee breeches worn by John Lefferts, 


1785-1829 
Ruffled linen shirt worn by John Lefferts, 1785-1829 
Two fancy silk vests worn by John Lefferts, 1785-1829 
White satin stock worn by John Lefferts, 1785-1829 
Ruffled linen shirt worn by Jan Lefferts, 1719-1776 
Blue silk brocaded vest worn by Jan Lefferts, 1719-1776 
Lent by Mrs. Leffert Lefferts 


Linen coat worn about 1858 
Lent by Mrs. Chauncey E. Low 
Waistcoat, Period of Louis XVI, of white satin em- 
broidered with flowers and insects 
Lent by Mrs. John W. Alexander 


Hand made dress shirt worn in New York City in 1839 
Lent by Mrs. Willard Bartlett 


Wedding trousers worn by James Benjamin Hickox in 
1847 
Lent by Mrs. Emma J. Stevens 


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Ruffled linen shirt worn by James Sheldon about 1822 
Lent by Fort Greene Chapter, Daughters of the 
American Revolution 
Gentleman’s pink taffeta sun umbrella with solid brass 
frame used in the Cary family of Newburyport, 
Massachusetts 
Lent by Mrs. Charles Bigelow Denny 
Coat worn by S. V. S. Wilder in 1820 


Vest worn by S. V. S. Wilder in 1820 
Lent by Mrs. William A. Putnam 


252A Brocaded silk banian, worn by Admiral Jackson in the 


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18th century when on diplomatic duty 
Lent by Mrs. W. Sterling Peters 


BEAD WORK 


Bead mat worked by Cornelia Margaret Hall in 1839 
Lent by Dr. and Mrs. Glentworth R. Butler 


Bell pull worked on very fine canvass 
Lent by Mrs. P. Chalmers Jameson 
Bead work made by S. M. Combes in 1856 
Bead work made in 1856 
Lent by Mrs. Joseph B. Whitney 
Early American beaded pincushion with the Flag and 
Eagle | 
Karly French beaded pincushion about one hundred and 
fifty years old 
Early German beaded pincushion about one hundred and 


fifty years old 
Lent by Miss Isabelle A. Whitney 


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254 Lent by Mrs. P. Chalmers Jameson 
257 258 259 Lent by Mrs. Isabelle A. Whitney 
262 Lent by Mrs. Frances C. Morse 





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English bell pull embroidered and worked with beads 
Lent by Mrs. P. Chalmers Jameson 


English bell pull of red beaded rope with red glass 
handle 
Three English bell pulls of bead work 
Lent by Miss Frances C. Morse 
English bell pull of bead work 
Lent by Mrs. Clarence Reginald Hyde 


Collection of eleven bead bags 
Lent by Mrs. James A. Post 
Bead chain made for the Rev. John D. Wells, D.D. when 
he was 17 years old. His name and the date are 
woven in chain 
Two bead chains 
Bead bag owned by Louisa Henderson 
Bead bag owned by Marion Dunlap Wells, 1793-1871 
Bead bag owned by Jessie Cairns Henderson 
Lent by Mrs. James A. Post 
Four bead bags 
Lent by Mrs. Walter B. Winslow 
Bead bag made by Elizabeth Titus of Westbury, Long 
Island about 1800 
Three bead bags 
Lent by Mrs. Henry F. Noyes 
Two white bead bags with colored designs made by Maria 
Fairbanks prior to her marriage to David Buffum in 
1839 
Lent by Mrs. Willard Bartlett 


Bead bag used by Mrs. Silas Butler 
Lent by Dr. and Mrs. Glentworth R. Butler 


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285 
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Bead bag worked by Elizabeth Vassal Russell Degan, 
1790 
Lent by Miss May Tyng Upjohn 
Knitted bead bag made by Sarah Van Nostrand Petit of 


Brooklyn, New York about 1840 
Lent by Miss Cornelia Gracie Henshaw 


Bead bag owned by Mrs. Isaac Brown of Providence, 
Rhode Island about 1825 
Lent by Miss Agnes W. Bartlett 


Black silk knitted and steel beaded bag 


Lent by the Fort Greene Chapter, Daughters of 
the American Revolution 


Knitted and steel beaded bag and purse made by Mar- 
garet Hamilton of Albany in 1857 
Lent by Mrs. Edmund C. Hamilton 


Two bead chains 
Lent by Mrs. Henry F. Noyes 


Bead chain 
Two bead chains made by Jane Wadhams Stevens of 
Litchfield, Connecticut, 1814-1862 
Lent by the Misses Ray 


Bead bag. Landscape. William Tell shooting apple. 
Acquired at Philadelphia 
Five English bead bags 
English petit point purse. Cir. 1650 
French bead bag 
German bead bags 
Lent by Mrs. Lathrop Colgate Harper 





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207 


Two bead bags worked by Vesta McLaren of New York 
City, 1815-1820 
Lent by Mrs. Willis Mott Moore 


Bead bag worked and used by Hannah Fish of Mystic, 
Connecticut in 1739 
Lent by Miss Harriet Dudley 


Bead bag worked by Rebecca Elizabeth Smith Beers in 
1828 
Bead bag worked by Rebecca Elizabeth Beers Haskell 
in 1834 
Lent by Miss Haskell 


Bead bag worked by Mary Griffing Lewis of Huntington 
Township, Long Island in 1810 
Lent by Mrs. Frank M. Brooks 


Gentleman’s beaded purse belonged to Margaret V. S. 
Ditmars 
Lent by Mrs. Joseph Duke Harrison 


Bead bag worked by Marietta Sherwood and carried at 
her wedding in 1835, when she married the Reverend 
Amos Savage of Fairfield, Connecticut 

Lent by Mrs. Henry Brewster Minton 


Bead bag worked by Jane Wadhams Stevens of Litchfield, 
Connecticut, 1814-1862 
Gentleman’s purse worked by Jane Wadhams Stevens of 
Litchfield, Connecticut, 1814-1862 
Lent by the Misses Ray 


Bead bag worked before 1840 
Lent by the Misses Ingalls 


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309 


Gentleman’s steel beaded purse 
Silk beaded purse made and used in 1835 
Velvet beaded bag made and used in 1835 
Lent by Mrs. Chauncey E. Low 
Bead bag knit in 1835 for Sarah Ann Landis 
Lent by Miss Sarah L. Evans 
Blue and steel beaded bag worked by Clarissa Johnson 


Way about 1830 
Lent by Miss Alice A. Driggs 


Beaded purse 
Lent by Mts. Stephen H. Giles 


Collection of New England bead bags 
Lent by Mrs. Jefferson Hogan 


LACES 


Black lace veil owned by Lydia Taft of Northbridge, 
Massachusetts in 1818 
Black lace fan owned by Lydia Taft of Northbridge, 


Massachusetts in 1818 
Lent by Mrs, Willis Mott Moore 


Hand run lace veil made by Caroline Dean Whitney and 
worn on her bonnet at her wedding in Mount Vernon, 
New York, October, 1823 

Two black hand run veils made and worn by Caroline 
Dean Whitney of Mount Vernon, New York in 1823 

Lent by Mrs. W. Frothingham Smith 

Hand run veil made for her wedding by Martha Hazel- 

tine of New Hampton, New Hampshire in 1832 
Lent by Miss Hazeltine Whitney 








John VV. Alexander 


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316 
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323 


Rose point lace barb owned by Mary Talbot Pitman Earle 
of Providence in 1839 
Lent by Mrs. Clarence Reginald Hyde 
Hand run lace veil made and worn by Silena Galpin 
Richardson of New Haven in 1830 
Lent by Miss Alice Earle Hyde 


Infant’s lace cap made for Mary Brewster in 1833 
Lent by Mrs. Henry Brewster Minton 
Lace veil 
Lent by Miss Virginia Woodward 
Lace cape worn about 1840 
Lent by the Misses Ingalls 
Black lace jacket worn in 1845 
Black lace mantilla worn in 1840 
Black lace veil worn in 1830 
Lent by Mrs. Chauncey E. Low 
Wedding veil made and worn by Dolly Roulston, Jr. in 
1832 
Lent by Mrs. Belle Bloom Leonard 


White lace owned by Mrs. David Buffam before 1840 
Lent by Mrs. Willard Bartlett 


Lace veil made and worn by Lucia D. Spaulding about 
1845 
Lent by Mrs. George D. Studley 
Black thread lace shawl owned by Anna Brooks March 
about 1840 
White lace fan owned by Anna Brooks Barch about 1840 
Lent by Mrs. John V. B. Thayer 


Old English lace veil 
Lent by Miss Mary Hunter 


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331 
332 


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334 


335 


Imported lace scarf worn by Elizabeth Doolittle Brooks 
of Brooks Vale, Connecticut in 1763 

Imported lace veil worn by Elizabeth Doolittle Brooks 
of Brooks Vale, Connecticut in 1763 

Imported lace veil, unusual shade of green; worn sus- 
pended from poke bonnet by Elizabeth Doolittle 
Brooks of Brooks Vale, Connecticut in 1763 

Black thread lace shawl owned by Anna Brooks March 
about 1840 

White thread lace shawl owned by Anna Brooks March 


about 1840 
Lent by Mrs. John V. B. Thayer 


White lace undersleeves worn by Elizabeth Ann Bowne 
in 1844 
Black lace shawl 
Lent by Mrs. Edwin C. Ward 


Square Chantilly Lace shawl used by Mrs. Silas Butler 
in 1820 
White thread lace used by Mrs. Silas Butler 
Lent by Dr. and Mrs. Glentworth R. Butler 


White lace veil embroidered on a strip of plain net by 
Miss Elizabeth Bellamy of Derby, Connecticut in 
1812, when during that war no lace was imported 

Lent by Miss Mary Hull Rowland 


Black thread lace veil worn by Mrs. James Sheldon, 
1830-1850 
Lent by the Fort Greene Chapter, Daughters of 
the American Revolution 


White lace cape 
Lent by Mrs. Charles E. Davis 





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344 


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348 


349 


Black lace jacket worn by Jane Wadhams Stevens of 
Litchfield, Connecticut about 1840 

Lace collar and undersleeves worn by Jane Wadhams 
Stevens of Litchfield, Connecticut about 1840 

Lace cape worn by Jane Wadhams Stevens of Litchfield, 
Connecticut about 1840 

Lent by the Misses Ray 

Two Honiton lace caps worn by Sophia Ward Black- 
bume, 1836-1856 

Brussels point lace barb worn by Sophia Ward Black- 
burne, 1836-1856 

Point lace collar worn by Sophia Ward Blackburne, 
1836-1856 

Honiton lace handkerchief, cuffs and two pieces of collar, 
set worn by Sophia Ward Blackburne, 1836-1856 

Embroidered handkerchief 

Separate undersleeves and collar of Honiton lace worn 
by Sophia Ward Blackburne, 1836-1856 

Honiton lace undersleeves worn by Sophia Ward Black- 
burne, 1836-1856 

Honiton lace set of vest and lapels worn by Sophia Ward 
Blackburne, 1836-1856 

Black thread lace coat worn by Sophia Ward Blackburne, 
1836-1856 

Black thread lace parasol top used by Sophia Ward 
Blackburne, 1836-1856 


Three black thread lace barbs worn by Sophia Ward 


Blackburne, 1836-1856 
Lent by Miss Mary Blackburne Woodward 


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357 


358 


Two black thread lace collars worn by Sophia Ward 
Blackburne, 1836-1856 
Black thread lace flounce worn by Sophia Ward Black- 
burne, 1836-1856 
Black thread lace mantilla worn by Sophia Ward Black- 
burne, 1836-1856 
Lent by Miss Mary Blackburne Woodward 


NEEDLEWORK 


Needlework picture of Judith Shakespeare at the tomb 
of her father, owned in New York City in 1850 
Needlework picture of vase of flowers worked by Julia L. 
Miller at the age of fourteen years of New York City 
in 1854 
Lent by Mrs. Willis Mott Moore 


Needlework picture of tomb and weeping willow with 
family register of the Reverend John Pitman of Provi- 
dence. A Baptist preacher and Revolutionary patriot 
in 1776 

Lent by Mrs. Clarence Reginald Hyde 

Needlework picture worked by Rosalie Crosby Whitmore 
in 1845 at the age of eight years 

| Lent by Miss Roberta Crosby Wood. 

Pair of needlework pictures 

Lent by Mrs. P. Chalmers Jameson 

Needlework picture of map of the Eastern and Western 

Hemisphere, worked by Betsey Mellon of Athens, New 


York in 1810 
Lent by Miss A. Louise M. Gilbert 





Lent by Mrs. W. Sterling Peters 


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367 


Needlework picture of Vicar of Wakefield, embroidered 
by Abigail Watson Tyler of Connecticut, at the age of 
eleven years in 1812 

Lent by Dr. and Mrs. H. Clarence Riggs 


Needlework picture composed of a variety of types of 
stitches, English, Stuart period, representing Henrietta 
Maria, daughter of Henry IV of France, and wife of 
Charles I of England 

Lent by Mrs. John W. Alexander 


Needlework picture in black silk on white satin em- 
broidered by the great-great aunt of the Earl of 
Warwick. 


Lent by the Misses Chauncey 


Needlework picture of English pheasant embroidered on 
satin by Elizabeth Andrew, her work, 1789. Given 
by her to her daughter Susanna Marks, 1830 

Needlework map of Europe. English, about 1775 

Needlework picture of. mother bird and nest. English, 

about 1790 


Lent by Mrs. P. Chalmers Jameson 


American. Made by Anne Gardner (Mrs. John Winslow) 
of Boston, in 1770, when she was 15 years old. Land- 
scape, shepherd, sheep and lady in red 

French. Fine petit point, 1754. Landscape and hunting 
scenes. Acquired at Paris 

German. Floral design in silk and gilt surrounding 
figure of Christ crucified. Acquired at Strassburg 

Lent by Mrs. Lathrop Colgate Harper 


368 Two early Victorian chairs and sofa needlework, subject, 
Mary and the Little Lamb 
369 Low stool, needlework and beads 
370 Sofa cushion, needlework and beads 
371 Chair, needlework and beads 
Lent by Mrs. Joseph B. Whitney 
372 Fire screen, 17th Century Belgian petit point 
373 18th Century, English, bell-pull of gros point 
Lent by Mrs. Edward R. Stettinius 
374 Needlework bag, embroidered in silk and silver gilt. 
Acquired at Dresden 


375 Austrian antique velvet bag and purse. Acquired at 
Vienna | 


376 American bell pull. Worked in wool, silk and steel beads 
on black canvas. Gift from Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach 
of Philadelphia. His family original owner 

377 German and Austrian Bell Pulls. Worked in silk and 
colored beads 

Lent by Mrs. Lathrop Colgate Harper 
3774 Needlework picture, Pomona, made by Ann Maria Grant, 


New York City, 1814 
Lent by Mrs. Joseph C. Whitney 


~TAPESTRY AND WORSTED WORK 


378 Tapestry picture in cross stitch worked by Elizabeth 
Parry in 1815 
Lent by the Misses Upjohn 
379 Two fire screens embroidered in cross stitch on fine silk 
canvas worked by Elizabeth Robinson Foster of Mon- 


treal in 1823 
Lent by Mrs. James Foster 


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393 


Old knitting sheath with goose-quill in center to hold the 
needles 
Pin ball worked on canvas by Mary Willets of Islip, Long 
Island in 1816 
Pin ball worked by Mary Titus of Herricks, Long Island 
in 1814 
Old needle-books worked in silk on canvas 
Lent by the Misses Titus 
Teapot holder woven and embroidered by Sarah Mon- 
tague of Wethersfield, Connecticut about 1756 
Wool work by Lois Savage Miller before 1850 
Lent by Mrs. Henry Brewster Minton 
Chair seat worked in 1838 
Lent by Mrs. Chauncey E. Low 


Worsted flowers worked by Cornelia Margaret Hall in 
1839 
Lent by Dr. and Mrs. Glentworth R. Butler 


“Cricket” with embroidered top owned by Mrs. Thomas 
Arnold Buffum before 1820 
Lent by Miss Agnes W. Bartlett 
Box covered with embroidered canvas worked by Matilda 
Temple Degan about 1820 
Lent by Miss May Tyng Upjohn 
Cross stitch picture of girl and cats 
Lent by Mrs. Fannie Roberts 
Group of cross stitch book marks about 1840 
Lent by Mrs. George B. Studley 


Tapestry picture work of Brooklyn bride in 1851 
Wool work picture of swans about 1820 
Lent by Mrs. W. Sterling Peters 


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SAMPLERS 


Sampler worked by Maria Haring, 1733-1800 
Lent by Dr. William Sidney Smith 


Sampler worked by Amelia Smith in 1840 


Sampler owned by Eleanor Jones Smith, 1823 
Lent by Miss Helen Tangier Smith 


Sampler worked by Maria E. Miller, aged nine years, of 
New York City, 1806 
Lent by Mrs. Willis Mott Moore 
Sampler worked by Elizabeth Heusted in 1823 
Lent by Miss Julia Kent Trowbridge 


Sampler worked by Amy Willets of Jerusalem, Long 
Island in 1816 
Lent by the Misses Titus 
Sampler worked by Rebecca Elizabeth Smith Beers, aged 
nine years in 184] 
Lent by Miss Haskell 
Sampler worked by Mary Husband of Philadelphia in 
1853 
Sampler worked by Mary Ashton Brackett about 1858 
Lent by Miss Mary T. Seaman 
Sampler worked by J. Cortelyou in 1834 
Lent by Mrs. Charles F. Seaman 


Sampler worked by Ruth D. Chedister of Brocka New 
Jersey in 1837 
Lent by Mrs. William Minton 
Sampler worked by Marie Armour in 1802 at the age of 


twelve years 
Lent by Mrs. Louis B. Nutting 








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377a Lent by Mrs. Joseph B. Whitney 


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411 


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413 


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416 


Sampler worked by Jane Wadhams of Litchfield, Con- 
necticut, aged nine years in 1823 
Lent by the Misses Ray 


Sampler worked by Laura Walton of Delaware, 
Maryland 
Sampler worked by Ellen Cameron of Brooklyn in 1858 
Lent by Miss Dorothea Reimer 


Modern sampler designed for book plate; adapted from 
old sampler with Caleb and Joshua returning from 
the Promised Land bearing the grapes of Eshcol; the 
key to freedom and the light of knowledge. Also 
book plate 

Designed and lent by Miss Dorothea Reimer 

Sampler worked by Mary Denison in 1759 

Lent by the Misses Russell 

Sampler worked by Johanna Dickinson of New York in 
1813 

Sampler worked by Elizabeth F. Briggs, aged six years 
in 1825 

Sampler worked by Jane V. Dickinson, aged nine years 
about 1812 

Sampler worked by Harriet Sinett Briggs, aged six years 


in 1834 
Lent by Mrs. James A. Brodie 


Sampler worked by Elizabeth H. Tredway in 1828 
Lent by the Misses White 


Sampler worked by Hannah Williams of Stonington, 


Connecticut in 1765 
Lent by Mrs. Albert L. Mason 


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424. 


Sampler worked by Martha Callendar, aged eight years, 
Boston, 1822 
Lent by Mrs. Thomas B. Littlejohn 


Two samplers worked by the nieces of Peter Cooper, 
Julia Cooper, aged eleven years, dated 1843 and Mar- 
garet Adelia Cooper, aged ten years. The Misses 
Cooper for many years spent the summers at their 
country place, now Cooper Square, Bushwick 

Lent by Mrs. Schuyler Schieffelin 


Three English samplers 
Lent by the Misses Chauncey 


English sampler of about 1775 
Lent by Mrs. P. Chalmers Jameson 


Sampler worked by Caroline Wachman of Bremen, Ger- 
many in 1813 
Sampler worked by Adelheid Keatte, aged twelve years, 
Bremen, Germany, 1822. Biblical subjects: Adam 
and Eve with the serpent under the tree of knowledge; 
Caleb and Joshua returning from the Promised Land 
bearing the grapes of Eshcol; Noah’s Ark and Ark of 
the Covenant 
Sampler worked by Heil Bollman, aged twelve years, of 
Bremen, Germany in 1838. Biblical subjects: key, 
emblem of the free city of Bremen, birds, flowers, 
animals and scales of Justice 
Lent by Miss Margareth B. Reimer 
Sampler worked by Anna Bollman, aged twelve years, of 
Bremen, Germany in 1845 
Lent by Miss Dorothea Reimer 


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Sampler on homespun linen with old Saxon lettering, 
worked by Adelheid Seekamp of Hanover in 1830 
Lent by Miss Margareth B. Reimer 
English sampler worked by Elizabeth Plantagenet Dey- 

den Michell in 1786 
Lent by Miss Anne Michell Upjohn 


English sampler made by Elizabeth Parry in 1813 
Lent by the Misses Upjohn 


Spanish sampler, dated 1807 
Lent by Miss R. Augusta Polhemus 
Family register worked by Betsey Abbott of Pomfret, 
Connecticut in 1798 
Tent by the Misses Ingalls 


Sampler 
Lent by Mrs. William P. Earle, Jr. 
Sampler worked by Betsey Dodd of Hartford; born in 
1776 and died aged twelve 
Lent by Miss Marion B. Cook 


Sampler worked by Cornelia Canfield of New Haven 
in 1845 
Lent by Mrs. Alexander N. Cook 


Sampler called “Contentment” worked by Hannah S. 
Fleet of Brooklyn in 1823 
Lent by Miss Florence E. Hegeman 


Sampler worked by Ruth Woodward about 1800 
Lent by Mrs. John H. Sinkinson 
Sampler worked by Mary Townsend in 1808 
Sampler worked by Louisa Wheeler, aged ten years in 
1832 


Sampler worked by Mary Broadhurst 
Lent by Dr. and Mrs. Glentworth R. Butler 


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Sampler worked by Deborah Buffum in 1716 
Lent by Mrs. Willard Bartlett 


Sampler worked by Mary Helen Graff, aged thirteen 
years in 1840. Verse written by a young brother 
Lent by Mrs. Janet Hamilton MacVicar 
Sampler made by Peggy Sweet of Alexandria, Virginia 
in 1799. In original frame 
Lent by Mrs. H. Randolph Elliot 


Sampler 
Lent by Mrs. Eugene A. Widman 


Sampler worked by Sarah Powell 
Lent by Mrs. Charles Bigelow Denny 
Sampler worked by Mary Cooper at the age of eight in 
1818 
Lent by Mrs. Charles E. Perkins 
Sampler worked by Cornelia Sleight Hildreth of Sag 
Harbor, New York about 1825 
Sampler worked by Cynthia Caroline Ayres of New 


Canaan, Connecticut in 1820 
Lent by Mrs. Louis W. Butler 


NotE—The following numbers are from the Col- 
lection of Mrs. Lathrop Colgate Harper 


Sampler. English. Late 16th or Early 17th Century. 
Attributed by Huish as “earliest known type of 
sampler’. Detached geometrical designs worked in 
colored silk and silver wire threads. 6° x 39". 
Acquired at Chester, England 

Sampler. English. 1644. Earliest known dated, signed 
sampler. Seven horizontal bands of needle-point lace 


lat te 


448 
4.49 


4.50 


on a background of exquisite old linen. Twelve in- 
tricate, extremely delicate designs for lace in conven- 
tional floral patterns. At the top, one alphabet, 
followed by the date 1644. Name, Sarah Thral, 
worked into the first band of lace. Size 6” x 1614” 

Sampler. English. 1661. Alphabet and 22 horizontal 
bands of lace and embroidery. 6° x 39°. Acquired 
at London 

Sampler. English. 1684. Horizontal bands and boxer 
figures. Signed Esther French. From the Countess 
of Newbury’s Collection 

Sampler. English. Cir. 1680. Horizontal bands of 
lace and embroidery in white on yellow linen. Alpha- 
bet and initials “M.D.” 9” x 26° 


451a Smallest known sampler. English. Cir. 1750. Verse 


452B 


4.53 


454, 


455 


4.56 


and strawberry border. “Made by Ann Gover in the 
eleventh year.” 214" square 

Smallest known lace sampler. English. 18th Century. 
28 lace designs in Italian needle-point stitches. 
2" x 31," 

Sampler bag. English. Cir. 1800. 12 line religious 
verse and 11] flower figures on each side. Embroidered 
in colored silk on fine bolting silk. 9” x 10" 

Sampler. Scotch. 1757. Horizontal bands, verse, 
alphabets, etc. Signed Fortrose, September, 1757. 
Acquired at Edinburgh 

Sampler. Dutch. Cir. 1660. 48 band designs, geomet- 
rical figures, etc. Acquired at Amsterdam. 

Sampler. Dutch. 1670. Alphabets, figures, etc. 
Acquired at Monnickendam 


457 Sampler. Dutch. 1685. Horizontal bands and alpha- 
bets. 10° x 43”. Acquired at Amsterdam 

458 Darning sampler. Dutch. 1769. With petit point 
figures 

459 Sampler. Dutch. Cir. 1650. 35 bands of lace and 
embroidery. Acquired at Amsterdam 

460 Sampler. Dutch. Darning 

461 Sampler. German. 1760. Large crucifiction, emblems, 
Adam and Eve, birds, animals. 10” x 74°. Acquired 
at Dresden 

462 Sampler. German. 1770. Tree of Life, horizontal 
bands, animals. 1114” x 41”. Acquired at Munich 

463 Sampler. German. Cir. 18th Century. Peculiar type 
of sampler made in the Vierlande. Geometrical de- 
signs in black thread. Acquired at Frankfort 


464 Samplers. German 

465 Two German Samplers 
B Button-hole and Gusset 
A Gusset. 1744 


466 Sampler. German. Silk. House and barnyard scene in 
petit point and satin stitch. Over 100 different designs 
worked in gilt and silver thread, jewels, and eat pea- 
cock feathers. Acquired at Leipsic 

467 Sampler. German. Silk. Worked in petit point and 
satin stitch. Cannons, flags, flowers, insects, lake 
scene. One figure worked in human hair. Acquired 
at Munich 

468 Sampler. German. Silk. Worked in chenille, beads, 
ribbon and chiffon. Acquired at Dresden 


. 


3 
; 


469 


470 


471 


472 


473 


4.74, 


475 


4.76 


477 


478 


479 


480 


481 


Sampler. German. Castle, crests, family names and 
alphabets on fine white linen. Acquired at Berlin 
Sampler. Austrian. Cir. late 17th Century. Curious 
geometrical designs, insignias, crests. Acquired at 
Vienna 

Sampler. Austrian. Cir. 1750. Curious figures worked 
in silver wire thread 

Samplers. Austrian. Collection of 18 long narrow lace 
samplers. Knitted and crocheted in innumerable de- 
signs. One 4” x 133” with 54 designs. Acquired at 
Vienna 

Three long net samplers. Designs in small squares on 
hand-made net 

Sampler. Spanish. 1682. 25 horizontal bands. 
12” x 34" 

Sampler. Spanish. Horizontal bands and detached de- 
signs. 8” x 37" 

Sampler. Spanish. 24 squares and bands of em- 
broidery and drawn work 

Sampler. Spanish. Innumerable ecclesiastical designs, 
emblems of Passion, etc. Worked in fine green thread. 
15” x 60° 

Sampler. Italian. Emblems of crucifiction, houses, 
landscape, etc. 23” x 30°. Acquired at Florence 

Sampler. Italian. Alphabet and ecclesiastical figures. 
6 x 14”. Acquired at Florence 

Sampler. French. Louis XV Period. Silk waistcoat 
sampler. Worked in jewels and sequins 

Sampler. French. Bead sampler. Colored beads on 
opalesque bead background 


482 


463 


484 


485 


4:36 


487 


488 


489 


490 


Sampler. French. Alphabet, emblems of crucifiction. 
Signed Mademoiselle Honorine Pallot. Acquired at 
Paris 


Sampler. Greek. Lace cut and drawn work designs in 
white and blue thread 


Sampler. Greek. Designs in small squares worked in 
blue and brown thread 

Sampler. Swiss. White embroidery and drawn work in 
squares on sheer mull 

Sampler. Swiss. 18th Century. Embroidered in white — 
with insets of drawn work 

Sampler. Scandinavian. 1776. Worked in colored silk 
on fine wool canvas. Satin stitch band on top. Dip- 
thong at end of alphabet—the characteristic mark of 
the rare Scandinavian samplers 


LINEN 


Homespun linen tablecloth with name and date (4th 
month 17, 1813, Sarah Titus) compose border, West- 
bury, Long Island. Woven by Mott Weavers at 
Wheatley, Long Island 

Homespun linen tablecloth with name and date (7th 
month 1814, Mary Willis) compose border, Westbury, 

Long Island. Woven by Mott Weavers of Wheatley, 
Long Island, where these looms were famous through- 
out the country . 

Homespun linen sheet with initials (S.T.) woven in 

border. Owned by Sarah Titus of Westbury, Long 


Island in 1817 Bris 
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493 


494, 


495 


496 


497 


498 


499 


Pair of homespun linen pillow cases with knotted lace 
owned by Sarah Titus Cromwell of Canterbury, Long 
Island in 1813 

Lent by the Misses Titus 

Pair of homespun linen pillow cases with hand drawn 

insertion, used in a way common among the Dutch of 


Flatbush 
Lent by Mrs. Edward B. Vanderveer 


Pair of homespun linen pillow cases made from flax 
grown on the farm of Thomas Place of Woodbury, 
Long Island in 1820 

Damask tablecloth spun from the flax grown on the farm 
of Thomas Place of Woodbury, Long Island in 1820 

Lent by Mrs. Frank M. Brooks 

Homespun and woven damask linen table napkins of 

1820 
Lent by Miss Louise G. Zabriskie 
Homespun linen towel hemmed by Maria Buffum and 


belonged to her mother before 1785 
Lent by Mrs. Willard Bartlett 


Piece of bedspread from Mt. Vernon. Inherited from 
Mrs. Washington by Margaret Sweet Conway of Alex- 
andria, Virginia 

Lent by Mrs. H. Randolph Elliot 
Homespun linen towel marked S.P.B. (Silas and Phoebe 


Butler) 1810 
Lent by Mrs. Brower Hewitt 


Homespun linen pillow case used in Owens family in 
1777 
Lent by the Fort Greene Chapter, Daughters of 
the American Revolution 


500 


001 


902 


903 


504 


305 


506 


307 


508 


509 


Homespun linen tablecloth with name and date in the 
border October 10, 1812 
Lent by Mrs. Charles F. Seaman 


Homespun linen tablecloth woven by Lucy Williams 
Sumner Wheeler of Worcester about 1800. Pattern 
“the cross” ) 

Piece of unbleached linen tablecloth woven by Lucy 
Williams Wheeler Kimball of Rumford, Maine about 
1820. Pattern “the cross” 

Lent by Miss Isabelle Moore Kimball 


BLANKETS 


Homespun blanket marked S.T. and owned by Sarah 
Titus of Westbury, Long Island in 1765 
Plaid homespun blanket owned by Hannah Titus of 
Westbury, Long Island in 1785 
Homespun blanket of wool and linen marked J.M.W. 
(Jonah and Mary Willets) of Islip, Long Island in 
1784 
Homespun blanket marged H.F. owned by Hannah Frost 
of Westbury, Long Island in 1807 
Lent by the Misses Titus 
Blue and white homespun blanket made before 1820 
Lent by Dr. Harriet V. B. Peckham 
White and blue homespun blanket made before 1800 
Lent by Mr. Alexander J. Patterson 
Red and white homespun blanket woven by Lucy Will- 


iams Sumner Wheeler of Worcester about 1800 
Lent by Miss Isabelle Moore Kimball 


510 


oll 


312 


013 


O14 
o1l5 


516 


O17 


Homespun woolen sheet or blanket, very fine light 
weight, dyed red; woven by Lucy Williams Wheeler 
Kimball of Rumford, Maine about 1820 

Lent by Miss Isabelle Moore Kimball 


HOOKED RUGS 


Two hooked rugs 
Lent by Miss Frances C. Morse 
Hooked rug and hook. This is the complete product of 
a Maine farm where the sheep were raised, the yarn 
spun and the cloth woven. The rags were cut in strips 
from old garments, placed in the dye pot where there 
was a trace of indigo and the blue ground of this rug 
was ready. The frame was home made and the burlap 
was obtained from old bags. The hook used, which 
accompanies the rug was fashioned from a two tined 
fork and the rug was designed and made by Miss Clara 
Dike of Douglas Hill, Maine 
Two hooked rugs designed and made by Miss Clara Dike 
of Douglas Hill, Maine 
Lent by Mrs. Henry Brewster Minton 
Hooked rug with raised and stuffed flowers 
Small hooked rug with raised and stuffed flowers 
Lent by “Little Men and Women of ’76”, Chil- 
dren of the American Revolution 
Hooked rug designed and made by Mehitobel Hooker 
Edgecomb 
Lent by Miss Hooker 


Hooked rug 
Lent by Mrs. D. Thomas Moore 


518 


o19 


220 
o21 
o22 
923 
024 
929 
526 
O27 
928 


229 


530 


O31 
o32 


933 


Three hooked rugs from Newburyport, Massachusetts 
Lent by Mrs. Charles Bigelow Denny 


Hooked rug 
Lent by Mrs. Charles F. Seaman 


TEXTILES 


Chintz bedspread, English, 18th century 
Hanging of English, 18th century, glazed chintz 
Hanging of late 18th century, Portugese chintz 
Hanging of printer linen, Louis XVI 
Bedspread of English, early 19th century, glazed chintz 
Pillow slip, late 18th century, Toile de Jouy 
Hanging of late 18th century, Portugese chintz 
Hanging of late 18th century, Portugese chintz 
“George Washington Banner”. Cotton print depicting 

the signing of the Declaration of Independence 
Small blue and white document of English, 17th century, 

linen 
Lent by the Arden Studios 


Bench covered in 18th century hand-woven tapestry from 
a chateau at St. Marlo, France 
Bench covered in Belgian hand-woven tapestry 
Fire screen, early American cross-stitch in wool, 1830, 
from Richmond, Va. 
Lent by Mrs. Edward R. Stettinius 


Picture “The Barnyard” woven in silk and brought from 
England in 1705 
Lent by Mrs. W. Sterling Peters 

















Chalmers Jameson 


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420 Lent by Mrs. 


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358 Lent by Mrs 


034 


938 


239 


540 


O41 


042 


543 


Piece of embroidery taken from one of the brackets in 
the boudoir of Marie Antoinette at the Tuilleries dur- 
ing the French Revolution 

Lent by Mrs. Charles S. Pool 

Examples of old calico 

Lent by the Misses Titus 
Old calico piano cover used in 1807 
Lent by Mrs. George D, Lanman 

Old blue damask curtain, one of set belonging to Mr. and 
Mrs. John Whipple Frothingham, then living in Rem- 
sen Street in 1860 

Lent by Mrs. Chauncey E. Low 


Set of bed hangings; historic print on cotton cloth of 
English naval battle 1782 


Lent by Fort Greene Chapter, Daughters of the 
American Revolution 


Example ‘of old stamped cotton cloth 
Lent by Mrs. Clarence Reginald Hyde 


Piece of English glazed chintz used in the home of Mayor 
Daniel M. Fox of Philadelphia in 1860 
Lent by Mrs. William Henry Fox 


Strip of Washington Chintz 
Lent by Miss Ruth Nyle Sparks 


Strip of red chintz 
. Lent by Miss Sparks and Mrs. Vanderbilt 

Old ribbon without selvage edge from the Dry Goods 
Store of Elisha Dodd of Hartford about 1840. When 
Elisha Dodd went out of business he refused to sell his 
stock of velvets, ribbons and other goods, but instead 


distributed them among his relatives. Caroline Dodd 
Belden, a grandchild, recalls that she and her sisters 


were dressed in the “Dodd Estate” for years 


044 Old ribbon used on a child’s dress in 1856 
Lent by Mrs. Alexander N. Cook 


945 Old ribbon of about 1845 
Lent by Mrs. George B. Studley 
546 Old ribbons of 1810 
947 Old ribbons of 1850 
Lent by Mrs. Clarence Reginald Hyde 
548 Old belt ribbons worn by Mary Ann Hammer Dodd in 
1835 
Lent by Mrs. Charles E. Davis 
549 Russian linen bought by Otis Bartlett during the War of 


1812 
Lent by Mrs. Willard Bartlett 


950 Toile de Jouy. French, late 18th century. The inscrip- 
tion “Non sine diis animosus infans” which translated 
reads:—“Not without heaven is the infant so power- 
ful” refers to the revolting American colonists—Oct. 
17, 1777, the date when Lafayette and the other 
French officers joined the American forces. Oct. 19, 
1781, the date of the surrender of Cornwallis to 
Washington and Rochambeau at Yorktown. The fig- 
ures in the medallion represent the English lion, and 
the goddess, Minerva protecting the young America 

551 Toile de Jouy, French, early 19th century, scenes from 
the life of Lafayette 


952 Cotton print, English, 18th century, design showing Ben- 
jamin Franklin at the Turf Inn 
Lent by Miss Frances Morris 


9903 


904 


5595 


596 


907 


208 


Cotton print, English, late 18th of early 19th Century, 
“Dr. Syntax” design 

Printed linen, English, late 18th or early 19th century, 
the design shows Washington with medallion portraits 
of prominent Americans after the du Simitiere series. 
The Washington figure after Trumbull’s portrait 
painted in 1780 which was engraved in London in 


1781 by Valentine Green 
Lent by Miss Frances Morris 


WOVEN COVERLETS 


Two-toned woven coverlet owned by Femmetie Hegeman, 
1753-1847 
Lent by Mrs. Leffert Lefferts 


Red and white woven coverlet, overshot. “Catalpa 
Flower“ pattern in North Carolina and called “Work 
Complete” in Kentucky. Made by the Atwater- 
Johnson family who came from Connecticut in an 
oxcart and took up a tract of 160 acres in the wilder- 


ness of Chenango County, New York 
Lent by Mrs. Ellen A. Burlison 


Red and white woven coverlet, overshot; woven by Lydia 
Hawkins Medbury of Chenango County, New York 


in 1843 
Lent by Mrs. Mary A. Dexter 


Coverlet “Sunrise” pattern; spun, dyed and woven by 
Mrs. Roger Clark of Chaplin, Connecticut about 1820 
Lent by Miss Edith Sawyer 


209 


560 


561 


5962 


963 


564. 


965 


5966 


Blue and white double woven coverlet “Snow drop” pat- 
tern 
Blue and white woven coverlet, overshot, “Scarlet Balls”’ 
pattern 
Lent by Mrs. Lucie C. Parkhurst 


Blue and white double woven coverlet with large conven- 
tional design and “Pine Tree” border; name “Sarah 
Ambler” woven in the corner 

Lent by Mrs. William P. Earle, Jr. 


Blue and white double woven coverlet made before 1820 
Lent by Dr. Harriet V. B. Peckham 


Blue and white coverlet; the flax and wool spun by 
Melissa Drake and woven by a professional weaver. 
Remarkable for the horses and spread-eagles in the 
border. The inscription woven in the corner reads 
“Melissa Drake Liberty and Independence Ithaca 
1837, A. Davidson, weaver” 

Lent by Mrs. Henry Blatchford 


Blue and white woven coverlet, overshot; “‘Fox Trail” 
pattern. Dyed, spun and woven about 1815 
Lent by Miss Ruth Boardman 


Blue and white woven coverlet, overshot; “Governor’s 
Garden” pattern. Owned by Blaisdell family of Roch- 
ester 

Lent by Miss Beulah Stevenson 


Blue and white all-wool woven coverlet, overshot; “Whig 
Rose” or “Sun, Moon and Stars” pattern 
Lent by Mr. T. H. Goudge 





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418 Lent by Mrs. Schuyler Schieffelin 


2967 


068 
969 


570 


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72 


373 


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Blue and white woven coverlet, overshot; owned in the 
Salt family of Long Island before 1776 
Lent by Miss Beulah Stevenson 


Blue and white woven coverlet, overshot, very fine weave 
Blue and white double woven coverlet, “Pine Tree” pat- 
tern; owned in the Ritter family of Brooklyn 
Lent by Mr. T. H. Goudge 


Blue and white double woven coverlet with name and 
date in border, “Mary Ann Tuthill, 1836” 
Blue and White double woven coverlet with name and 
date in border, “Charity Howell, Nov. 13, 1846” 
Lent by Miss Mildred Wells 


Blue and white double woven coverlet; spun, dyed and 
woven by Polly Wickham Ely of Hector, Schuyler 
County, New York about 1825 

Lent by Mrs. Donald Ely Elliot 


Blue and white coverlet double woven in one piece. Large 
floral center with eagle border, Masonic emblems and 
quotations from speech signed General Lafayette. The 
name of the first owner is woven in the border, “An- 
geline Dingy, Ludingtonville, Putnam County, New 
York, 1826” 

Lent by Mrs. Samuel K. Frost 


Blue, white and brown woven coverlet with “Bird of 
Paradise” pattern and “Old Boston Town” border. 
Woven by Gabriel Miller for Susan Landis before 


1820 
Lent by Mrs. George A. Evans 


O15 


576 


ol7 


078 


2/9 


280 


ao 1 


982 


983 


584 


Blue and white woven coverlet, “Double Chariot Wheels” 
pattern 
Blue and white finely woven coverlet, overshot. “Whig 
Rose” pattern rarely woven as small as this 
Lent by Miss Effie Van Tassel 
Blue and white woven coverlet, overshot; owned by Mary 
Willets of Islip, Long Island in 1784 
Lent by the Misses Titus 


Blue and white double woven coverlet; large central de- 


sign; birds and weeping willows in border; American 
eagles in corners with the woven name “William Low, 
Miller level Cornerly County, 1838.” Owned by 
Sarah Haseltine Cummings of Delhi, New York 
Polychrome woven coverlet, overshot; owned by Sarah 
Haseltine Cummings of Delhi, New York in 1843 
Lent by Mrs. Joseph B. Whitney 


Blue and white double woven coverlet made before 1800 
Lent by Mrs. Charles F. Seaman 

Double woven coverlet with white floral design, rose and 
thistle over red plaid on indigo background from 
Brackerbeen, New York in 1847 

Double woven coverlet, light blue and red figures, “Pine 
Tree” border from Dedham, Massachusetts 

Double woven coverlet, chestnut brown ground, square 
design in white with star in center. Border adapted 
from “‘Windflower’’ pattern, from Oneida County, New 
York about 1850 


Blue and white woven coverlet, overshot, an adaptation 
from “Ring and Chains” pattern, from Oneonta, New 


York about 1840 
Lent by Dr. William W. Blackman 


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D890 


586 


387 


988 


589 


590 
391 


592 


993 


094, 


Blue and white double woven coverlet, made by Martha 
Van Scruyver of Bristol, Pennsylvania in 1820 
Lent by Mr. Alexander J. Patterson 


Blue and white woven coverlet, overshot, “Mosaic” pat- 
tern, owned by Eleanor Jones Smith about 1825 
Lent by Miss Helen Tangier Smith 


Blue and white woven coverlet made by Nancy Miner of 


Coventry, New York in 1820 
Lent by Mrs. C. Stuart Gager 


Blue and white woven coverlet made by Mary Canfield in 
1820 
Blue and white woven coverlet made by Achsah Brewster 
in 1820 
Lent by Mrs. Henry Brewster Minton 


Brown and green woven coverlet 
Lent by Mrs. Frederick H. Paine 


Blue and white double woven coverlet 
Lent by Mrs. Joseph Duke Harrison 


Blue and white double woven coverlet made by Anne Fish 
Hathaway in 1800 
Lent by Mrs. Alfred E. Loveland 


Blue and white woven coverlet owned by Otis Bartlett 
between 1780 and 1790 
Lent by Mrs. Willard Bartlett 


Blue and white double woven coverlet, unusual border of 
trees and lions in the corners, woven in Onandago 


County, New York end of the 18th century 
Lent by Mrs. Helen Churchill Candee 


995 


596 


597 


598 


099 


600 


601 


602 


603 
604 


QUILTS AND SPREADS 


Red and white patch quilt with fine quilting, made by 
Margaret Kerr while living on a plantation in Alabama 
in 1837 

Blue and white patch quilt made by Joanna Roberts of 
Goshen Center, Connecticut about 1837 

Lent by Mrs. William T. Marsh 


Stuffed quilted bedspread, part of the “Hope Chest” of 
Jeanette Chapman at the time of her marriage to John 
Bixby of Marcellus, New York 

Lent by Mrs. Archie Price 


Silk pieced quilt made by Lydia Mott of Great Neck, 
Long Island in 1800 
Patch quilt, ““Basket’’ pattern, made for her trousseau by 
Eliza Matilda Jackson before her marriage to Colonel 
Sweeting Miles of Cedar Creek, Virginia about 1855 
Lent by Miss Alberta K. Miles . 


Glazed chintz patch and embroidered quilt 
Lent by Mrs. Harry C. Keeling 


Red and white patch quilt, “Drunkard’s Path” pattern 
with patch squares of birds and flowers in center 
Lent by Mrs. Fanny Roberts 


Rose colored calico bedspread 


Lent by Mrs. Charles Bigelow Denny 


Silk and chintz bedspread from Maine 
Silk bedspread used by General Lafayette 
Lent by Mrs. P. Chalmers Jameson 





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563 Lent by Mrs. Henry Blatchford 















605 


606 


607 


608 


609 


610 


611 


612 


Quilted bedspread from Albany. Appliqued chintz de- 
sign; quilting in “waves, circles and squares,” made 
by Mrs. Jane Coulson in 1828 

Lent by Dr. William W. Blackman 

Patch quilt, “Tulip” pattern, made about 1860 

Lent by Mrs. George B. Studley 

Piece quilt, “Hexagon” pattern; the matching of the pat- 
terns in the materials in the hexagons exceptionally 
fine. Border of glazed chintz. Made by Maria Ar- 
mour Moore about 1809 

Piece quilt of diamond shapes for a child’s crib. Made 


by Mrs. William Castle about 1840 
Lent by Mrs. Louis B. Nutting 


Quilted bedspread, basket and grapevine design, made 
by Ann Day Moore in 1800 
Lent by Miss Sallie Fessenden Hodges 
Patch and piece quilt made by Nancy Blackman Ray of 
South Farms, Litchfield, Connecticut about 1814 
Lent by Mrs. William Ray 


Revolutionary quilt of cotton print in old rose of “Wash- 
ington Victorious.” Made and used by Elisabeth 
Brown Cutting of Providence in 1776 

Lent by Mrs. H. Clarence Riggs and 
Miss Elisabeth Brown Cutting 

Patch quilt, large conventional design, with “waves, 
hanging diamonds” and “vertical lines” quilting, made 
by Ellen Cox White of New York State in 1810 and 
given to her daughter Eleanora, who marked it in cross 
stitch ‘““Made and presented by my dear mother” 

Lent by Mrs. Chandler A. Mackey 


613 
614 
615 
616 


617 


618 


619 


620 


621 


622 


623 


624 


625 


Red and green patch quilt, “Conventional Tulip” pattern 
Quilted spread 
Two glazed chintz piece quilts 
Two quilted chintz spreads 
Chintz spread 
Lent by Miss Ruth Nyle Sparks 
Patch quilt, “Basket” pattern, made by Laura Fosdick 
Stebbins of Deerfield, Massachusetts 
Lent by Mrs. Edward W, Haskins 
Patch quilt of “Combination Wreath” pattern, made by 
Maria Nichols Lawrence in 1798 
Lent by Mr. Theodore C. Merwin 
Silk piece quilt, “Log Cabin” pattern 
Lent by Mrs. Stephen H. Giles 
Stuffed quilt with large central pattern and elaborate 
grapevine border, made and designed by Elizabeth 
Leavitt in 1800 
Lent by Mrs. George D. Lanman and 
Miss Haskell 
Example of stuffed and quilted work made and designed 
by Elizabeth Leavitt in 1800 
Patch quilt, “Rising Sun” pattern, “Leaf and Wave” 
quilting 
Lent by Miss Haskell 


Corded quilting bedspread with hand-knotted and darned 


fringe for valance and tester, made by Hannah Smith 
Richardson of New Haven about 1798 

Mahogany and white piece quilt, “Rising Sun” pattern, 
made by Silena Galpin Richardson of New Haven 


about 1840 
Lent by Mrs. Clarence Reginald Hyde 





626 


627 


628 


629 


630 


631 
632 
633 


634 


635 


636 


Pieced and outlined quilt, combination of “Religious 
Album and Teacaddy” pattern, made by Martha 
Sackett Hyde of Westbrook, Connecticut before 1860 

Piece quilt, “Many Pointed Star” pattern, with fine ex- 
ample of feather quilting. Connecticut about 1830 

Lent by Mrs. Clarence Reginald Hyde 

Three patch quilts for dolls’ beds, made in 1845 

Lent by Mrs. John V. B. Thayer 

Patch quilt with birds in border; one of the earliest made 

by the sewing machine about 1860 
Lent by Mrs. William P. Earle, Jr. 

Piece quilt for crib of “Octagon” pattern, made by Mary 

A. Love of Wilmington, North Carolina 
Lent by Miss Hazel Love Knight 

Two piece quilts of glazed chintz made about 1825 

Patch quilt made in Salem about 1800 

Embroidered bedspread of homespun linen worked in 
crewels, made about 1730 

Bedspread made from the wedding dress of Mrs. John 
Whipple Frothingham, married 1840, and of a satin 
brocade worn by Mrs. Frothingham’s mother, Mrs. 
Benjamin Thompson, at a large ball in Washington, 
D. C., in 1848 

Lent by Mrs. Chauncey E. Low 


Candle wicking bedspread of homespun linen; thistle 
prominent in design showing probable Scotch ancestry 
of maker 

Lent by Mrs. W. Sterling Peters 


Example of tufted and quilted work. 
Lent by Mrs. Leffert Lefferts 


637 


638 


639 


640 


641 


642 


643 


644, 


645 


Example of stuffed and quilted work. 
Lent ky Mrs. Willis McDonald 


Homespun heavy linen bedspread owned by Cornelia 
Margaret Hall about 1839 
Lent by Mrs. Brower Hewitt 


Example of stuffed and quilted work 
Lent by the Fort Greene Chapter, Daughters of 
the American Revolution 
Knitted bedspread made on a fine-tooth comb by original 
method, very old 
Lent by Miss Effie Van Tassel 
Tufted candle wicking bedspread made by Lucy Brainerd 
of Colchester, Connecticut in 1816 
Lent by Mrs. Frederick Foote Purdy 
Knotted candle wicking (called by some “Bunch Stitch”) 
bedspread made and designed by Prudence Brown 
Dean of Deans Mills, Mystic, Connecticut in 1817. 
The material for the spread was woven by a member 
of the family 
Lent by Miss Harriet Dudley 
Candle wicking bedspread owned by Sarah Carew 
Lent by the Misses Russell 
Embroidered quilt, original design worked in crewels on 
hand-spun linen made by a member of the Latimer 
family about 1772. This quilt was saved when New 
London was burned by the British in 1781 
Lent by the Misses Latimer 
Patch quilt for crib. “Star of the East” and “Basket” 


patterns 
Lent by Mrs. Henry Brewster Minton 


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Tufted candle wicking bedspread made by Nancy Clarke 
in 1785 
Lent by Miss Sallie Fessenden Hodges 
Patch and embroidered quilt of original design, made in 


1815 by Mary Rosalie Presstman Myers of Baltimore 
Lent by Mr. Myers Richardson Jones 


Red and white piece quilt, “Double Irish Chain”’ pattern 
Red and white piece quilt, “Greek Cross” pattern; the 
four hearts in the corners indicating the four friends 
who assisted with the making of the quilt at White 
Plains, New York 
Piece quilt of French calico and white cotton, “Fish Bone 
or Fish Back’ pattern 
Piece quilt with “feathers in circle” quilting, made by 
Mary Jane Fields Forrester of White Plains about 
1840 
Blue and mahogany piece quilt made by Catherine Hor- 
ton Fields of White Plains 
Piece quilt 
Lent by Miss Effie F. Van Tassel 
Original designed squares for a patch quilt made by 
friends and given to a bride 
Lent by Mrs. Alden S. Crane 
Red, white and green patch quilt, “Tulip” pattern, made 
by Emily Heusted in 1835 
Lent by Miss Julia Kent Trowbridge 
Green silk quilted bedspread made by Deborah Willets 
of Islip, Long Island. The central part was originally 
a petticoat and in 1742 was made into the quilt with 


border added 
Lent by the Misses Titus 


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Patch quilt, “Three Spray Tulip” pattern, with scroll 


border, made by a member of the Saxton family of 
Watertown, New York in 1830 

Patch quilt with a red flower pattern and leaf border, 
made by a member of the Saxton family of Watertown, 


New York in 1830 
Lent by Mrs. John R. Rogers 


Patch quilt, “Rosebud and Leaf” pattern, made by Maria 


Nichols Lawrence in 1798 
Lent by Mr. Theodore C. Merwin 


Quilted bedspread owned by Ruth Amelia Russell 
Lent by the Misses Russell 


Piece quilt made in 1850 
Lent by Mrs. Emma J. T. Beers 


Finely quilted bedspread made by Marcia Bellamy Row- 
land and Nancy Bellamy and given by them to Eliza- 
beth Bellamy for a wedding gift about 1830 

Lent by Miss Mary Hull Rowland 


Piece quilt for a child’s bed, late 18th century, made by 
a Maryland grandmother for a first grandchild 
Lent by Mrs. W. Sterling Peters 


Tufted and knotted candle wicking bedspread made by 


Susan Richardson of Durham, New Hampshire about 
1786 
Lent by Mr. Percy S. Mallett 


Siuffed and quilted bedspread with eagle and American 


flags in center, made by Mary Waldron Thompson, 
1791-1855 
Lent by Mrs. Charles R. Buckley and 
Mrs, John D. Buckley 


Piece and patch quilt, “Basket” pattern 
Lent by Mrs. Walter B. Winslow 


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A GROUP OF DIVERSE OBJECTS 


An invitation to a ball given in honor of General La- 
fayette framed, together with his acceptance and 
signature 

Lent by Mrs. Robert Coleman Taylor 


An old engraving representing the presenting of the 
colors by Louis Philippe to General Lafayette and the 


Marechal Girard 
Lent by Mrs. Louise Oakley Thomson 


Lowestoft mug owned by Elizabeth Nichols Dyar, born 
in Malden, Massachusetts in 1751. In this mug the 
stain was mixed to blacken the faces of the “Indians” 
in the Boston Tea Party; her husband, Captain Joseph 
Dyar, being one of the “Indians” 

Lent by Mrs. George B. Studley 


Two Italian, 17th century, contribution bags, one em- 
broidered with the symbols of the Holy Ghost on gold 
color velvet, the other embroidered with fleur-de-lis on 
green velvet 

Early 18th century stomacher, embroidered in gold and 
colored thread on green satin, French 

Lent by Mrs. John W. Alexander 


A set of early 19th century wall paper panels painted in 
gauche from an old house in New England 
Lent by the Arden Studios 





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MINIATURES 


Saint-Memin (1770-1852) 


Unknown Gentleman 


Unknown 
Charles Fraser (1782-1860) 
Captain William Pettigrew, U. S. N. 


Unknown Artist 
Portrait of Paul Jones done at Versailles in 1780 


Charles Fraser (1782-1860) 
Alice Belin Flagg 


James Peale (1749-1831) 
McRee 

James Peale (1749-1831) 
Self Portrait 

Sarah Goodridge 
Daniel Webster 

James Peale (1749-1831) 
James Claypoole Copper 


James Peale (1749-1831) 
Mrs. James Claypoole Copper 
Lent by Mr. Herbert L. Pratt 


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William Dunlap (1766-1839) 
Charles Brockden Brown: 

Wilham Birch (1755-1834) 
General Lafayette 


Nathaniel Rogers (1788-1844) 
Mrs. Gabriel Manigault 


Henry Inman (1802-1846) 
Portrait of a Lady 


Robert Field (1798-1819) 
Dr. James Sergeant Ewing 
Unknown 


Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860) 
Doyle E. Sweeney 


Unknown 

Edward G- Malbone (1777-1807) 
Elizabeth Alston Jervey 

John Ramage (1763-1802) 
John Hampton Chase of Maryland 

Robert Field (1798-1819) 
George Washington 

Unknown Artist 
John Sparhawk 

Edward G. Malbone (1777-1807) 
Caleb Abell 


Unknown 
Lent by Mr. Herbert L. Pratt 


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Edward G. Malbone (1777-1807) 
Colonel Richard Singleton 


Edward G. Malbone (1777-1807) 
M. Livingston De Lancey 


Laurence Sully (1769-1804) 
Patrick Henry 


Edward G. Malbone (1777-1807) 
Sarah Ladson Gilmore 


Benjamin Trott (1770-1841) 
Lewis Adams 


Unknown 
Unknown 


Benjamin Trott (1770-1841) 
Joseph Anthony 


Henry Elouis 
Martha Washington 


Edward G. Malbone (1777-1807) 
Major Samuel Wragg 


Charles Fraser (1782-1860) 
William Manigault Heyward 


Benjamin Trott (1770-1841) 
Robert Morris. 


Sarah Goodridge 
Granville Mellen 


Lent by Mr. Herbert L. Pratt 


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Henry Inman (1802-1846) 
James Bogert, Jr. 
Unknown 
Charles Fraser (1782-1860) 
James Ladson of Charleston, S. C. 


Unknown 
Lent by Mr. Herbert L. Pratt 


James Tooley 
Thomas Sully 


Thomas Sully 
Manuello Zimeno painted from description 


G. L. Saunders 
Marie Dalrymple (Mrs. Nathaniel Williams) 


Thomas Sully (1783-1872) 
Ruth. Ideal Portrait 
Thomas Sully (1783-1872) 

Blanche Sully 
Henry Inman (1802-1846) 


Eliza Coyton Childs 
Lent by Mrs. Alfred W. Sully 


James Peale (1749-1831) 
Unknown Gentleman 
Lent by Miss Elizabeth Colson 


Thomas Sully (1783-1872) 
Manuello Zimeno 
Lent by Mrs. Alfred W. Sully 


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Edward G. Malbone (1777-1807) 


Joseph Barrell 
Lent by Mrs. William A. Putnam 


Thomas Sully (1783-1872) 
General Alfred Sully 


Thomas Sully (1783-1872) 


Rosalie Sully 
Lent by Mrs. Alfred W. Sully 


G. L. Saunders 

Mrs. Charles Gilmor nee Charlotte Patterson 
G. L. Saunders 

Louisa Armstead of Baltimore 
Thomas Cumming (1804-1894) 

Unknown Divine 


Edward G. Malbone (1777-1807) 
Archibald Taylor of Georgetown, S. C. 


Robert Field (1794-1819) 
B. F. C. Dashiell of Baltimore 


James R. Lambdin (1807-1889) 
Polly Stuart Webb Vincent 
Benjamin Trott (1770-1841) 
Edward Stowe 
Edward G. Malbone (1777-1807) 
Thomas Radcliffe of Charleston, S. C. 
James Peale (1749-1831) 


Rembrandt Peale 
Lent Anonymously 


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William Birch (1755-1834) 
General Lafayette 


Gilbert Stuart (1755-1888) 
Margaret Hellegas 


Saint-Memin (1770-1852) 


Governor Clinton 


William J. Hubard 
Augusta Tabb Daniel 


John Ramage (1763-1802) 


Memorial Miniature of John Foreman 


John Ramage (1763-1802) 
Antony Rutgers 


Anna Claypoole Peale (1791-1878) 
Dolly Madison 


Laurence Sully (1769-1804) 


Unknown Man 


Malbone or Trott 
Anthony Bleeker 


Lent Anonymously 


Edward G. Malbone (1777-1807) 
Mrs. William Blacklock 


Charles Fraser (1782-1860) 
Francis K. Huger 


Edward G. Malbone (1777-1807) 
Captain George Izard 
Lent by Mr. R. T. Haines Halsey 


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James Peale (1749-1831) 
Mrs. John Wilson nee Mary Stewart 


Washington Alston 
Mrs. Huger nee Phoebe Carr 


Edward G. Malbone (1777-1807) 
Self Portrait 
Unknown 


Edward G. Malbone (1777-1807) 
Joel R. Poinsett 


Edward G. Malbone (1777-1807) 
Miss Poinsett 

James Peale (1749-1831) 
John Wilson 


Edward G. Malbone (1777-1807) 
The Little Scotch Girl 


Unknown 
Lent by Mr. R. T. Haines Halsey 


Unknown Artist 
Memorial Miniature of Henry G. Staats 
Lent Anonymously 


John Rubens Smith 


Unknown Gentleman 


T. S. Cumming (1804-1894) 
Elizabeth Stirling Foote 


T. S. Cumming (1804-1894) 
Erasmus Darwin Foote 
Museum Collection 


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Edward G. Malbone (1777-1807) 
Portrait of a Lady 
Eliab Metcalf (1785-1834) 
John Haslett, M. D. 
Unknown 
Unknown 
Unknown 
William J. Hubard 
Silhouette of a Gentleman 


Unknown 
Museum Collection 


James Sharples 
John Chesnut 


Museum Purchase 


James Sharples 
Dr. Reuben Smith 


James Sharples 
Dr. Elihu H. Smith 


Lent by Mr. Walter H. Crittenden 

















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